[Worldwide, mutations in the gap junction beta 2 (GJB2) gene, encoding the connexin 26 (Cx26) protein, are responsible for approximately 30% of all cases of childhood SNHL.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE